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I'm guessing they will meet up with Jojen and Meera who are making their way to Winterfell, oblivious about Bolton's shenanigans (I don't know how Jojen and Meera would miss Ramsay's army though). Then J&M will advise them to split up, or Osha will suggest it, as they are Robb's closest two heirs.

Ooooh, good idea, they might have him and Meera coming to check on the Starks after Jojen had a premonition. Then, when they assertion how seriously in trouble House Stark is, they renew the oaths of Greywater Watch.

Perhaps a bit unlikely and cliched, but I think it would still be a cool scene to see, Meera and Jojen kneeling before a confused, hodor riding Bran "We swear by Ice and Fire"

I think they will probably all travel together for a while and meet up with Jojen and Meera on the road. Jojen will help to explain warging/greendreams to Bran and their friendship will grow. Rickon and Shaggydog will become progressively harder to control and I think that while at Queenscrown, Rickon will be a major factor in the group almost being caught by Wildlings. It will be then that Osha or Jojen will decide that it's a good idea to split up, with Bran and Co heading to the Three-Eyed Crow and Rickon going to somewhere "unknown". It will create a good emotional moment at the end of the season for the group to split up and we get to know Rickon a little better (since he may or may not feature prominently in future books). After that, I think they will probably leave Osha and Rickon's whereabouts unknown for a season or two.

I think they might head for the Dreadfort since it's ostensibly held by one of Robb's bannermen. Jojen will be apprehensive and have a green dream about it... and they'll eventually discover Ramsay was responsible for sacking Winterfell. At that point, they'll realize the Stark line is in serious danger and split up.

The scene at Queenscrown will happen with just Bran/Hodor/Meera/Jojen like it did in the books.

I think they might have Meera go with Rickon and Osha stick with Bran, if you look at Meera and Jojen's IMDB page Meera is only in the first episode, and Jojen is in almost every episode. I hope that's not what happens but it seems likely to me.

On the one hand, I think HBO wants to give Osha screen time. But I think it's also pretty possible that she will, in fact, depart with Rickon.

First, the show is already introducing a bunch of new characters. And as we all know, a bunch more will keep being introduced -- important ones, too, like the Martells, Connington, etc. They could use some more screen time for those characters later without having to make scenes for Osha. Plus, they'll save money by not paying her -- and she was as big a name as anyone else on the show, really, minus Sean Bean -- and it will allow them to recast Rickon later, if necessary. Rickon was cast so young they don't know if he'll be good, and they won't lose much in continuity by doing so. He could be a giant teenager by the time they get to Skaagos. Also, this depends on what GRRM plans to do with Rickon and Davos. But the show has clearly already established Davos as an important character, and if he goes off and has adventures later, they're going to want to be able to show that.

Plus, we are getting Meera and Jojen and they have some catching up to do. I imagine they'll be getting the screen time during the Bran storyline scenes.

My prediction? Jojen green dreams or advises Bran to split up with Rickon, and sometime after Jojen and Meera are introduced, Osha and Rickon go on their way.

I think they'll do it so Meera and Jojen meet them on the way to the wall and say that Jojen had a greendream of where they were heading.
Then they will go to the passage under the wall and Rickon and Osha will split off and go past Eastwatch-by-the-Sea to Skagos (not sure how they will mention that they are going to Skagos as theres no real reason I can see to explain it).

During this time Bran & party will pass under the wall and meet Sam + Gilly, then as they leave the wall I'm guessing they'll see Stannis fighting the wildlings.

I think we all know how they will handle Bran. His story has to go a certain way. Rickon is the wild card. Will they even put him on screen once they separate? I'm not sure. Will we even see him and Tonks (Osha of course heh) again until everyone's favorite smuggler is sent to rescue Rickon after everyone's favorite fat man tells him Rickon should be alive and well? I'm really not sure how they will do it.

Ha. I like the cut of your jib. Whatever that means lol. Because that would be hilarious if that happened. Belwas would be talking about eating his wolf and the unicorns when he was found. And Sallador would be talking about having sex with who knows what when he got there haha. Osha first probably.

They'll run into Jojen and Meera while going north towards the Wall. Something will stop their travels, and most of the season will be about Bran discovering his abilities via Jojen's knowledge.

In the end of the season, something big will happen that will make Osha realize that having the two northern heirs in the same place isn't smart, so she agrees to leave Bran to Jojen and Meera, and take Rickon somewhere else. Season 4 will probably address Rickon more than the books have, while Bran and co. will journey north as it was in the book.

They are going to meet up with Jojen and Meera in season 3, they are cast. I have to assume that Rickon and Osha will hang around, they wouldn't just toss Tonks away after she did full frontal...oh wait..it's Game of Thrones...Also, I just found this out, we don't know who Ned's mother/Bran's grandmother is, my speculations are she is a Skaggosi (sp?) woman and her location could have been what Luwin whispered to Osha before he died. Purely speculation on my part though.

I'm guessing they'll still part ways. There will likely be a heartfelt parting between Osha and Rickon, and Bran, Jojen and Meera. They'll be an indication that Osha will now care for Rickon a la his mother. We'll not see Rickon again until the final season (if GRRM chooses to write him back in WoW or DoS).

IMO this is the way to go since it draws focus back to Bran's journey.

Not really. George says one of his biggest regrets was making all the kids as young as they were. He planned on doing a 5 year gap between ADWD and TWOW to fix that, but then scrapped it. The show basically makes all the kids the age they should be.

It is my train of thought that as the seasons progress the show will continue to deviate from the books and will likely give rise to some completly different chain of events. As far as Rickon and Osha go, if they want to give Osha more screen time the only way I could see them doing it is if they tag along until they hit the wall.

HBO wants to have as many story lines going on at once to keep up with their ADD method of story telling; they just can't keep focus on one character for more than 5 minutes. So if some writer comes up with a whimsical idea of having Osha teach Rickon the ways of the wildlings to give rise to another story line, they will probably do it.